A new boiler house and bathhouse have appeared in the Polotsk border detachment at the expense of the Union State

September 20, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. The Union State is creating comfortable conditions for its border guards to perform their duties, Denis Glebko, head of the press service of the Polotsk Border Detachment, told BELTA correspondent. At the expense of the Union budget of Russia and Belarus, two energy-saving facilities have been built on the territory of the Polotsk Border Detachment - a gas boiler house and a bathhouse. Their launch is planned for the detachment's birthday, September 24. The new boiler house will house three energy-efficient boilers for heating and hot water supply, and its dimensions are eight times smaller than the old one. It is capable of operating autonomously without maintenance personnel. While the maintenance and operation of the old boiler house, which runs on fuel oil, required significant effort and material resources for fuel delivery and heating, several people had to be involved daily. The facility will operate at full capacity with the start of the heating season. Soldier's service is unimaginable without a proper bathhouse, and the Polotsk Border Detachment will have a real SPA center with a steam room, a swimming pool, and even a plunge pool. At the expense of the Union State budget, the administrative building of the Urbany border post and the Urbany border control department in the Braslav district have been built and are ready for commissioning. The Polotsk Border Detachment guards a 265 km section of the border with Latvia and Lithuania. Over the past eight months, Polotsk border guards have detained 22 border violators, 233 violators of legislation on the state border, and prevented 92 cases of smuggling and administrative-customs offenses. Material assets worth Br1.8 billion were confiscated in favor of the state, and 18 units of weapons and 144 units of ammunition were seized. In July-August, on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border, Belarusian border guards thwarted 104 attempts to illegally export 83.6 thousand packs of cigarettes. In addition, on the "green" border section, directly at the moment of crossing or in prepared caches, more than 147 thousand packs of cigarettes were seized in 25 cases. -0-